The Friends of Coal continue their outreach efforts with the following events:

Continued work on the State Journal direct message piece. The section now looks to be 40-48 pages and will feature news and profile pieces featuring industry issues and Association members.

June 16^th – Association met with the leadership of the Boy Scouts Summit project and toured

the property in Fayette County.  Also met with Senators and Delegates from Fayette, Raleigh, Nicholas and Wyoming counties, as well as Commissioners, Mayors and their staffs from Fayette County.

July 15-17th – Will maintain an informational booth at the Friends of Coal Auto Fair in Beckley.

July 21st – Friends of Coal will provide the keynote speaker for the Cabell County Schools’

West Virginia Coal Project to discuss the economic impact of coal on the West Virginia economy. The presentation will be at the Logan Country Club in Chapmanville, WV on the evening of July 21, 2011.

FoxNews.com

Is climate change raising sea levels, as Al Gore has argued -- or are climate scientists doctoring the data?

The University of Colorado’s Sea Level Research Group decided in May to add 0.3 millimeters -- or about the thickness of a fingernail -- every year to its actual measurements of sea levels, sparking criticism from experts who called it an attempt to exaggerate the effects of global warming.

"Gatekeepers of our sea level data are manufacturing a fictitious sea level rise that is not occurring," said James M. Taylor, a lawyer who focuses on environmental issues for the Heartland Institute.

Daily Mail

While campaigning for vice president in September 2008, Joe Biden confided 
to a voter in Ohio, ""No coal plants here in America." 

"Build them, if they're going to build them, over there. Make them clean. We're not supporting clean coal."

By "over there," Biden meant China.

His campaign and the press covering the event dismissed this as a "gaffe," an erroneous statement.

But nearly three years later, Biden's words ring more and more true.

The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register

For about two years we have been among those warning that if President Barack Obama is allowed to proceed with his war on coal, the wolf will be at many doors in our region.

Well, the wolf is on our doorsteps.

242 Jobs will be lost at AEP due to EPA regulations

Governor Earl Ray Tomblin issued the following statement after learning American Electric Power (AEP) will close three West Virginia power plants by 2014 resulting in the loss of 242 jobs.  AEP cites environmental regulations issued by the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as the cause of the impending closures.